CVE-2026-96405
NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.26.1 limits compression-pointer traversal for each individual domain-name operation but has no aggregate inbound decompression-work budget. Many chained compression pointers in a message results in a lot of CPU usage following them. A malicious actor with recursive-query access and control of an ordinarily delegated authority that serves specially crafted replies can exploit the vulnerability and degrade Unbound's general performance.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L - EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 16% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-770
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced